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Johnny Depp plays successful writer Mort Rainey, who is suffering from writer's block and has retreated to an isolated lakeside cabin in the face of a divorce from his wife, Amy (Maria Bello), following his discovery of his wife cheating on him with Ted Milner (Timothy Hutton), now her boyfriend. Living alone in the woods, Mort is confronted one day by the mysterious John Shooter (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism. Shooter gives Mort a book he claims to have written. At first, Mort regards Shooter as a madman and throws away the book. But he cannot stop thinking about it, and finally reads it. It is almost exactly the same. The movie follows Mort's struggles to prove conclusively to Shooter and to himself that he has not plagiarized the story. Shooter continually harasses Mort, and later kills his dog. As the story progresses, Mort hires a private investigator (Charles S. Dutton) and asks the help of the local sheriff , who doesn't believe him. The investigator asks if there are any witnesses, and Mort remembers a local man saw, them together. But Shooter then murders both the investigator and the man and leaves them in a car. Mort then pushes the car into the river. Shooter also burns down the house of Mort's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ted is convinced that Mort is the culprit responsible for the burning. Johnny Depp plays successful writer Mort Rainey, who is suffering from writer's block and has retreated to an isolated lakeside cabin in the face of a divorce from his wife, Amy (Maria Bello), following his discovery of his wife cheating on him with Ted Milner (Timothy Hutton), now her boyfriend. Living alone in the woods, Mort is confronted one day by the mysterious John Shooter (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism. Shooter gives Mort a book he claims to have written. At first, Mort regards Shooter as a madman and throws away the book. But he cannot stop thinking about it, and finally reads it. It is almost exactly the same. The movie follows Mort's...